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Woody vs Frutex - What's the difference?

woody | frutex |

As a proper noun woody

is a male given name, from a nickname for woodrow.

As a noun frutex is

(botany) a plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

woody

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered in woods; wooded.
  • (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
  • Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
  • (botany) Non-herbaceous.
    • Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
  • (botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".

    • Noun

    (woodies)
  • A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
  • (vulgar, slang) An erection.

    • See also

    * wood * wooden * wooded

    frutex

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
    • (Webster 1913)